Anguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

5: The Book of the Fives

53. Factors

0 source: sāvatthi.

1 There are, O bhikkhus, these five factors for [pursuing] what is worth striving for. Which five?

2 Here, O bhikkhus, a bhikkhu is one of faith. He has faith in the awakening of the Tathagata: “Truly is he the Auspicious One, the Arahant, rightly self-awakened, excelling in knowledge and conduct, well-farer, knower of worlds, incomparable charioteer of tamed persons, teacher of devas and humans, awakened, auspicious.”

3 He is one of little affliction, of little illness, endowed with good digestion, having a digestion that is not too cold, not too hot, but moderate for endurance in striving.

4 He is honest, not deceitful, one who reveals himself to the Teacher or his wise companions in the life of purity.

5 He abides firm in energy for the abandoning of unwholesome dhammas, for the attainment of wholesome dhammas. He is a strong one, an energetic one, not laying aside the responsibilities in [striving for] wholesome dhammas.

6 He is a wise one, endowed with wisdom that sees arising and extinction, which is of the noble, penetrative stock that leads to the thorough obliteration of suffering.

7 “These, O bhikkhus, are the five factors for [pursuing] what is worth striving for.”

0 sāvatthi nidānaṃ:

1 pañcimāni bhikkhave padhāniyaṅgāni. katamāni pañca?

2 idha bhikkhave bhikkhu saddho hoti saddahati tathāgatassa bodhiṃ: itipi so bhagavā arahaṃ sammāsambuddho vijjācaraṇasampanno sugato lokavidū anuttaro purisadammasārathī satthā devamanussānaṃ buddho bhagavāti.

3 appābādho hoti appātaṅko samavepākiniyā gahaṇiyā samannāgato nātisītāya nāccuṇhāya majjhimāya padhānakkhamāya.

4 asaṭho hoti amāyāvī yathābhūtaṃ attānaṃ āvikattā satthari vā viññūsu vā sabrahmacārīsu.

5 āraddhaviriyo viharati akusalānaṃ dhammānaṃ pahānāya kusalānaṃ dhammānaṃ upasampadāya thāmavā daḷhaparakkamo anikkhittadhuro kusalesu dhammesu.

6 paññavā hoti udayatthagāminiyā paññāya samannāgato ariyāya nibbedhikāya sammā dukkhakkhayagāminiyā.

7 imāni kho bhikkhave pañca padhāniyaṅgānī'ti.